It’s a mish-mash of frosting, sprinkles, gummi worms, cookies, and other odds-and-ends. With Ralph’s help she acquires a racing kart, though not quite as pretty or perfect as the other racers. Though a little bratty and big-mouthed when we first encounter her, we soon find that she’s a glitch within the game, who just wants the chance to race.Ī still from the film, where Vanellope shows off her sweet wheels to Ralph. We are introduced to Vanellope when Ralph makes his way into the Sugar Rush arcade game.

Sugar Rush Racers Review #1 – Vanellope Von Schweetz While the packaging screams to ‘collect them all,’ I’ve chosen to collect just two that are integral to the film’s plot: Vanellope Von Schweetz, and King Candy. However, the most interesting push has been the release of over 12 different racers and their vehicles as seen in the film. The majority of merchandise for the film (created by their in-house marketing and design team) centers around the myriad racers of Sugar Rush, from plush dolls to character sets of pins and erasers. With over 16 racers in the game, Disney’s marketing people must have seen this as a slam-dunk for merchandising potential. The land is a combination of Mario Kart, and the world of Strawberry Shortcake, in which little kids with candy-related names, race across the cavity-inducing landscape to take 1st place. I also wonder if I’m a little biased towards Wreck-It-Ralph, due to his adventures in the racing world of Sugar Rush (I’m a big fan of things with wheels). The emotional one-two punch just wasn’t there with Brave, but Ralph delivered in spades (along with the attached animated short, Paperman). This was the first year that a Walt Disney Feature Animation release actually was more entertaining to me than a release from PIXAR Animation Studios.

Candelhead's second Voice Actress Andrea Libman is known as Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Lemon Meringue from Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures, Katya from Super Monsters, Cylindria from Pac-Mac and the Ghostly Adventures, and X-23 from X-Men Evolution.After seeing Wreck-It-Ralph when it was released, I was surprised by an astonishing realization.

Her plush smells like mint-chocolate chip.

Candlehead is the only Sugar Rush character who doesn't have a last name.

Additionally, in the Sugar Rush race, her stand says Minty across the top. Her plush has her mint chocolate chip scent intact.

Candelhead's original name may have been intended to be 'Minty', as shown in One Sweet Race and her concept art.

In the Japanese adaption of Wreck-It Ralph, there is a remodel of Minty Zaki called Minty Sakura. However, she looks much more like Candlehead, wearing a traditional Japanese kimono and a raspberry clip in her hair.Candlehead is also shown to be a bit protective of her candle, becoming distressed when it is extinguished. This shows that she might be easily manipulated by others and sensitive in nature. In the end of the film, when Vanellope is proven to be Sugar Rush's true ruler, she bawls and claims that she only bullied Vanellope because she was going with what Taffyta said. According to her official bio, she is a bit ditzy and not the brightest candle on the cake. Candlehead often has a happy and careless expression and wears her bright-green hair in bunches.ĭuring the movie, Candlehead works closely with Taffyta Muttonfudge and Rancis Fluggerbutter, being one of Taffyta's followers and doing what Taffyta says, like using the flames from her kart engine to light cherry bombs during a race to slow down other racers. While racing, she wears a large cupcake helmet similar to her beanie, complete with a candle on top, as well as a dark pink visor. She wears a pink jacket and skirt with a brown striped shirt beneath it, matching brown leggings with pink polkadots, black shoes that have little waves of pink icing, and a large cake hat with a candle on the top. Hypnotized by the flame atop her own head, she gets lost in a haze of Happy Birthdays. Sugar Rush and its daily races wouldn't be complete without Candlehead, but she’s a few scoops short of a sundae.'Ĭandlehead is a young, pretty, girl with vivid, green eyes. 'Candlehead is a riot who's able to laugh at herself-even when she's the target of the joke.

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